Popular vote is good. BUT last time ( 2016 ) the

[Doreen]

electors ignored what the people wanted and voted for donny and put our country where it is now. We are relying more on the electoral voters. They are the ones who scare me the most.

[still_one]

1. Until we get rid of the electoral college that is the way it will be

[Drunken Irishman]

2. The electors voted for their state's popular vote winner and will again.

[Doreen]

3. They are not required to do that. At least not in some states.

That is what scares me.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. You're getting scared over nothing.

[Turin_C3PO]

4. They followed the correct procedure in 2016.

They will again in 2020. You don’t have to worry about that.

[Silent3]

5. If Biden had just eked out 270 EC votes, I'd have been scared...

...about the possibility of a “faithless elector” or two screwing us over. Just 270 seemed like one of the very possible outcomes for a while, but fortunately we’re well on our way to a comfortable margin of safety there.

As much as I hate the EC, it was supposed to function as a safety mechanism in some situations, and should have fulfilled that function in 2016 by rejecting Trump. That wouldn’t have even been an anti-democratic move, since the majority of the population supported Clinton.

But, as the saying goes, “You had one job to do...”.

[sarisataka]

6. In 2016 the electors did

What they were supposed to do.

There is no reason at this time to expect they will do other than what they are supposed to do, again.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. The electors did not ignore anything.

They did exactly what they were supposed to do.

There is not just one slate of electors. Each and every political party puts up their own slate, and it's very rare for there to be "faithless" electors, ones who vote for someone besides who they are supposed to. And faithless electors have never changed the final outcome.

It helps to understand exactly how the system works.

Heck, one of the reasons Kanye West didn't get on at least one ballot was that he did not have an actual slate of real people who'd agreed to be his electors.

[abqtommy]

9. In 2016 it was the ratfucking that won, not the vote.